GRE Word List
ROUSING
giving rise to excitement : stirring
The meaning of the word rousing is giving rise to excitement : stirring.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| scabbard | a sheath for a sword, dagger, or bayonet |
| dispense | to divide and share out according to a plan : to deal out in portions |
| clapper | one that claps: such as |
| mystic | mystical |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| prate | to talk long and idly : chatter |
| clandestine | marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy : surreptitious |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| diverse | differing from one another : unlike |
| obsessive | tending to cause obsession |